They can, in the same way I can. The individuals involved can all vote. If you are going to make a straw man, at least try to get it to stand up straight before you knock it down.
All trolls and no posts make spun something something... Anyway, yeah, I guess you were just putting it into perspective. I just get a little jumpy on Tuesdays...
So I guess you are advocating prioritizing every problem on the planet and forbidding people from working on the less serious issues until the more serious ones are solved?
Oh wait, it's troll tuesday and you don't give a rats ass about anyone's problems unless you can use them to start a flame war. Now I understand.
Good point. But what do we do when the big ISPs SILENTLY limit access to content they don't provide? In a crippled Internet where not all the nets are connected together, will we even be able to find a provider that lets us access everything the way we do now? That is the problem we are talking about, not the idea that paying more money gets you better service.
The pipes in question run through public spaces and the public can renegotiate or cancel the contract any time they want. The pipes in question amount to a natural monopoly and the free market is not the most efficient mechanism for managing such monopolies. It does matter what the majority thinks about rights because rights are created by people. There are no natural rights, only those we agree to uphold in others. Certainly, rights need to be enforced equitably, but see my above two points as to why telco's property rights do not trump my own rights in this case. There's no slippery slope here, no one is going to use this as an excuse to seize your assets.
Sigh. It's a story about corporations limiting access to content they don't provide. It's not about China. If you can't see how that's off topic, your karma here is going to be pretty bad pretty soon. Sorry if you don't like it. Hell, if you are so concerned, make a journal entry or something.
But the attitude that we are somehow remiss for even raising the topic of corporate segmentation of the Internet when China is censoring Internet access is rude and condescending, and I'm guessing you are just trolling and have absolutely no concern for the Chinese except as a ploy to raise people's ire.
Certain I'm an asshole? What an asshole thing to say. I was trying to keep the post on topic. We aren't talking about China here, we are talking about something that hits close to home. It's not a straw man, it's a seperate argument. I answered the GP post about China, then veered back on topic. How is that a straw man?
Guess what? That's not our problem. If the Chinese don't like it, let them deal with it. Oh, they can ask us for help, and I for one would be happy to help if I could, but don't try to make it out that it's our moral imperative to rescue every sentient being on the planet from the consequences of their actions.
What I'm concerned about is a fragmented Internet where ISPs only let you access content they control. Or are you completely okay with that? Whatever, I kinda think you are trolling anyway.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Even bad attention is better than none, right? The funny thing is, this guy demonstrates every cliche he rants against.
You can roleplay without it being interactive. So you're choosing premade dialogue. Actors don't even get to do that, and no one would argue whether they are playing a role.
Personally, I think that if you aren't minimaxing every decision but thinking, "What would this character do in this situation?" then you are roleplaying, whether anyone else is watching. In an MMORPG you may be minimaxing, power-levelling and chatting in l33tsp43k and that is NOT roleplaying even if others are around.
Very few single player roleplaying games get me to actually role play though. I mean, no one is watching, so why go to the trouble? It has to be good. Morrowind was the last RPG that actually got me to the point where I would make bad decisions simply because "That's what my character would do."
So you want to read a file and make a hash? Unfortunately, the rootkit has inserted itself into the OS. Read any other file and it will tell you the truth. Read an infected file and it will lie.
Thanks. It needed to be said. These are not environmentalists, they are simply asshats who call themselves environmentalists. Environmentalists can be wacky and contradictory, but I doubt you'd find many who wouldn't JUMP at the chance to have a wind farm near them, if only so they could brag to their environmentalist friends.
John McLaughlin: What's up with video games these days? Patty Patty Buke Buke. Pat Buchanan: I'm thinking nothing, really. Maybe a little.. John McLaughlin: WRONG!
Good write up of the problem there. The author reminds me of many of my friends. During the 90s they were euphoric over the prospects of an age of universal freedoms brought on by the Internet.
I was the cynic in the corner saying, "Do you guys not read history? What happened when the TV was invented? Radio? Film? The printing press? I'll tell you what happened, buncha optimistic folks like you said the world was gonna change, but big money came along and ruined it. That's what always happens."
I'm not one to say I told you so but... wait, yes I am. I TOLD YOU SO!
Hehe, the system drive is a laptop drive, it's the only way to get an extra drive to fit. Routing cables in these suckers was fun, too, until they switched to InfiniBand cabling. Now there's one Infiniband, one LED cable, and one power cable per bank of four drives.
Commercials as such will die, what we will have is ridiculous amounts of product placement in every TV show made. And more of those annoying 'pop-up' ads at the bottom of the screen. Blech. At least you can skip commercials.
And I know the theme song! Star Trekkin' By The Firm:
Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Lt. Uhura, report! / There's Klingons on the starboard bow,/starboard bow, / starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, [again|Jim].
Analysis!, Mister Spock! / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,/not as we know it, Captain.
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow,/starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, again.
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe,/ On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, still can't find reverse.
Medical (garbled), Doctor McCoy McCoy: It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. / Dead, Jim. Dead, Jim. / It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim, Dead.
Spock: It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,/not as we know it, Captain
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, Jim!
Starship Captain, James T. Kirk
Kirk: Ha-ha! We come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, / shoot to kill. / We come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, men.
Spock: Well, it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, Captain.
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / scrape 'em off, Jim
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, and things are getting worse!
Engine[er| room], Mister Scott
Scotty: Ye canna change the laws of physics, / laws of physics, laws of physics! / Ye canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, [yet|Jim]
Kirk: Oh, we come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, shoot to kill! / We come in peace, shoot to kill, / Scotty, beam me up!
Spock: Well, it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, Captain.
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, aaagain!
Scotty: Ye canna change the script, Jim! McCoy: It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim! Kirk: Bridge to engine room, warp factor nine! Scotty: Ach! If I give 'er any more she'll blow[, Captain]! Scotty: Ye canna change the status of the (auxiliary) ax'l engine eh?! ( loud boom ) Na..na..na..na..na..na..na..na..na
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!
Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Thank the Lameness filter for the formatting. Sheesh.
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They can, in the same way I can. The individuals involved can all vote. If you are going to make a straw man, at least try to get it to stand up straight before you knock it down.
All trolls and no posts make spun something something... Anyway, yeah, I guess you were just putting it into perspective. I just get a little jumpy on Tuesdays...
Just wait for the "Kittens, Ponies and Apple Pie" bill which makes it illegal not to have a twelve inch government "probe" up your ass...
So I guess you are advocating prioritizing every problem on the planet and forbidding people from working on the less serious issues until the more serious ones are solved?
Oh wait, it's troll tuesday and you don't give a rats ass about anyone's problems unless you can use them to start a flame war. Now I understand.
Good point. But what do we do when the big ISPs SILENTLY limit access to content they don't provide? In a crippled Internet where not all the nets are connected together, will we even be able to find a provider that lets us access everything the way we do now? That is the problem we are talking about, not the idea that paying more money gets you better service.
The pipes in question run through public spaces and the public can renegotiate or cancel the contract any time they want. The pipes in question amount to a natural monopoly and the free market is not the most efficient mechanism for managing such monopolies. It does matter what the majority thinks about rights because rights are created by people. There are no natural rights, only those we agree to uphold in others. Certainly, rights need to be enforced equitably, but see my above two points as to why telco's property rights do not trump my own rights in this case. There's no slippery slope here, no one is going to use this as an excuse to seize your assets.
Sigh. It's a story about corporations limiting access to content they don't provide. It's not about China. If you can't see how that's off topic, your karma here is going to be pretty bad pretty soon. Sorry if you don't like it. Hell, if you are so concerned, make a journal entry or something.
But the attitude that we are somehow remiss for even raising the topic of corporate segmentation of the Internet when China is censoring Internet access is rude and condescending, and I'm guessing you are just trolling and have absolutely no concern for the Chinese except as a ploy to raise people's ire.
Certain I'm an asshole? What an asshole thing to say. I was trying to keep the post on topic. We aren't talking about China here, we are talking about something that hits close to home. It's not a straw man, it's a seperate argument. I answered the GP post about China, then veered back on topic. How is that a straw man?
I do give a damn about human rights. I just don't think we should go galloping across the world to "help" others unless they ask first.
Guess what? That's not our problem. If the Chinese don't like it, let them deal with it. Oh, they can ask us for help, and I for one would be happy to help if I could, but don't try to make it out that it's our moral imperative to rescue every sentient being on the planet from the consequences of their actions.
What I'm concerned about is a fragmented Internet where ISPs only let you access content they control. Or are you completely okay with that? Whatever, I kinda think you are trolling anyway.
I think you hit the nail on the head. Even bad attention is better than none, right? The funny thing is, this guy demonstrates every cliche he rants against.
You can roleplay without it being interactive. So you're choosing premade dialogue. Actors don't even get to do that, and no one would argue whether they are playing a role.
Personally, I think that if you aren't minimaxing every decision but thinking, "What would this character do in this situation?" then you are roleplaying, whether anyone else is watching. In an MMORPG you may be minimaxing, power-levelling and chatting in l33tsp43k and that is NOT roleplaying even if others are around.
Very few single player roleplaying games get me to actually role play though. I mean, no one is watching, so why go to the trouble? It has to be good. Morrowind was the last RPG that actually got me to the point where I would make bad decisions simply because "That's what my character would do."
So you want to read a file and make a hash? Unfortunately, the rootkit has inserted itself into the OS. Read any other file and it will tell you the truth. Read an infected file and it will lie.
At least that's what I'd do if I was a rootkit.
I feel so break-up, I wanna go home!
Mwahahaha! Who wants to "log on" to my system now? Just don't ask me to patch any security holes...
Thanks. It needed to be said. These are not environmentalists, they are simply asshats who call themselves environmentalists. Environmentalists can be wacky and contradictory, but I doubt you'd find many who wouldn't JUMP at the chance to have a wind farm near them, if only so they could brag to their environmentalist friends.
John McLaughlin: What's up with video games these days? Patty Patty Buke Buke.
Pat Buchanan: I'm thinking nothing, really. Maybe a little..
John McLaughlin: WRONG!
(with apologies to SNL)
From what I've seen, Ebert likes what he likes, regardless of genre or background. He's no snob. Generally, when he thinks a movie sucks, I agree.
Unless you use a Frobozz Magic Company Anti-Grue Kit, or their Magic Grue Repellant (which lasts all of one turn.)
It's pretty damn good. Almost a drop in replacement. Take a look for yourself.
Didn't they talk about Grue and Bleen in your course? That explains it at least as well as varying fundemental constants.
Good write up of the problem there. The author reminds me of many of my friends. During the 90s they were euphoric over the prospects of an age of universal freedoms brought on by the Internet.
I was the cynic in the corner saying, "Do you guys not read history? What happened when the TV was invented? Radio? Film? The printing press? I'll tell you what happened, buncha optimistic folks like you said the world was gonna change, but big money came along and ruined it. That's what always happens."
I'm not one to say I told you so but... wait, yes I am. I TOLD YOU SO!
Hehe, the system drive is a laptop drive, it's the only way to get an extra drive to fit. Routing cables in these suckers was fun, too, until they switched to InfiniBand cabling. Now there's one Infiniband, one LED cable, and one power cable per bank of four drives.
Oh, and oops! I meant 3ware not 3com.
Commercials as such will die, what we will have is ridiculous amounts of product placement in every TV show made. And more of those annoying 'pop-up' ads at the bottom of the screen. Blech. At least you can skip commercials.
And I know the theme song!
/starboard bow, / starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, [again|Jim].
/not as we know it, Captain.
/starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, again.
/not as we know it, Captain
Star Trekkin'
By The Firm:
Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Lt. Uhura, report! / There's Klingons on the starboard bow,
Analysis!, Mister Spock! / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow,
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe,/ On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, still can't find reverse.
Medical (garbled), Doctor McCoy
McCoy: It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. / Dead, Jim. Dead, Jim. / It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim, Dead.
Spock: It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it,
There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow,
starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow,
starboard bow, Jim!
Starship Captain, James T. Kirk
Kirk: Ha-ha! We come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, / shoot to kill. / We come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, men.
McCoy: It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. / Dead, Jim. Dead, Jim. / It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim. Dead, Jim, Dead.
Spock: Well, it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, Captain.
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / scrape 'em off, Jim
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, and things are getting worse!
Engine[er| room], Mister Scott
Scotty: Ye canna change the laws of physics, / laws of physics, laws of physics! / Ye canna change the laws of physics, laws of physics, [yet|Jim]
Kirk: Oh, we come in peace, shoot to kill, / shoot to kill, shoot to kill! / We come in peace, shoot to kill, / Scotty, beam me up!
McCoy: It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim! / Dead, Jim! Dead, Jim! / It's worse than that, he's dead, Jim! Dead, Jim, Dead!
Spock: Well, it's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, / not as we know it. / It's life, Jim, but not as we know it, / not as we know it, Captain.
Uhura: There's Klingons on the starboard bow, / starboard bow, starboard bow. / There's Klingons on the starboard bow, starboard bow, aaagain!
Scotty: Ye canna change the script, Jim!
McCoy: It's worse than that, it's physics, Jim!
Kirk: Bridge to engine room, warp factor nine!
Scotty: Ach! If I give 'er any more she'll blow[, Captain]!
Scotty: Ye canna change the status of the (auxiliary) ax'l engine eh?!
( loud boom )
Na..na..na..na..na..na..na..na..na
Chorus: Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk! / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!
Star Trekking, across the universe, / On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk. / Star Trekking, across the universe, / Only going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse.
Thank the Lameness filter for the formatting. Sheesh.